FB: Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference

[historymajor]

417???  Come on,, granted I was in the pressbox, but nah....  I estimated 900-1000. 

I too 'learned' that D3 crowds are puny compared to TX Friday Night Lights 10-15K... 
But what the h^&*,,,  they just don't know what they're missing. 

High quality football, played by young scholar-athletes that are top-notch future leaders, surrounded by parents and friends that have invested their lives in these great young men..... 

It doesn't get much better than that!

[Tex]

417???  Come on,, granted I was in the pressbox, but nah....  I estimated 900-1000. 

I too 'learned' that D3 crowds are puny compared to TX Friday Night Lights 10-15K... 
But what the h^&*,,,  they just don't know what they're missing. 

High quality football, played by young scholar-athletes that are top-notch future leaders, surrounded by parents and friends that have invested their lives in these great young men..... 

It doesn't get much better than that!

I think 100 of them were the parents of the dance teams that performed at half time, then promptly exited at the start of the 3rd Q.  Just like the band parents at our local high school!

[D3_DPUFan]

I think 100 of them were the parents of the dance teams that performed at half time, then promptly exited at the start of the 3rd Q.  Just like the band parents at our local high school!

[TigerDad]

Just for grins, I looked at TU's stats and see that they claimed an attendance of 1475 for the Thursday pre-Hurricane game vs. TLU at EM Stevens.

If there were 1475 people at the TLU game, there were at least 2684 at Colorado College.

Must be those Obama supporters doing the counting at TU ...

[DPU3619]

Just for grins, I looked at TU's stats and see that they claimed an attendance of 1475 for the Thursday pre-Hurricane game vs. TLU at EM Stevens.

If there were 1475 people at the TLU game, there were at least 2684 at Colorado College.

Must be those Obama supporters doing the counting at TU ...

You know, there's one thing I will say for certain after all of my travels through D3 venues:  1,000 fans to SID #1 may look like 2,000 to SID #2 and 500 to SID #3.

I've had quite a few of those when I would get back to the hotel after a broadcast and take a peek at the boxscore.  There were several times where I'd think, "There were 1500 people there?  The only way there were 1500 people there was if he counted himself 800 times."

[D3_DPUFan]

Must be those Obama supporters doing the counting at TU ...

Good one!

Hey what are your early impressions of the San Antonio Tigers? Any surprises or too early to tell?

[frank_ezelle]

I once asked a former Millsaps SID how they came up with the attendance numbers since the official numbers were often wildly out of whack with reality.  I was told that the NCAA allows schools to calulate the count based on a formula instead of actually counting the number of spectators. 

I never got much of an answer on how this formula worked. My impression was that a school could assume that a certain percentage of the students would attend an event, plus assume that a certain percentage from the local alumni base would attend, etc.  I may have that totally wrong since my questions at that time got such vague answers.  Maybe someone else has a better idea of how this formula works.

[Pat Coleman]

Frank,

In my years in Division III athletics I have never heard of such a formula.

[Major_Fan]

Working at D-I Texas State prior to Millsaps, I was informed that the NCAA allows you to add the fans, staff, players, workers, etc. to help with attendance numbers if they are very low.  I trust my former boss because I feel he's one of the best in the country.  He or I might be completely wrong, but I have used that formula for a good four years now.  For instance, we might have 24 people at a volleyball game and put down 50 after adding both teams, the staff and even someone who stepped in for a second.  I will agree I've probably been way off too on attendance numbers.  The TU/Millsaps game last year was probably around 2,200 and I think I had 4,500 or something like that.    

[Ralph Turner]

...  The TU/Millsaps game last year was probably around 2,200 and I think I had 4,500 or something like that.    

And 30 years from now, the number of people who saw the "Miralce in Mississippi" will number into the "tens of thousands"!   

Why shucks!  I remember that game myself!         

[Bill McCabe]

Me too, Ralph.  I've seen that play a hundred times on TV.

[exmajor]

...  The TU/Millsaps game last year was probably around 2,200 and I think I had 4,500 or something like that.    

And 30 years from now, the number of people who saw the "Miralce in Mississippi" will number into the "tens of thousands"!   

Why shucks!  I remember that game myself!         

What is the "Miracle in Mississippi"?  Is that something that happened last year, was the Mississippi River parted at Vicksburg?  Hopefully I can find it on the Internet! I can't even remember what I ate for lunch on Saturday 

[Pat Coleman]

Working at D-I Texas State prior to Millsaps, I was informed that the NCAA allows you to add the fans, staff, players, workers, etc. to help with attendance numbers if they are very low.  I trust my former boss because I feel he's one of the best in the country.  He or I might be completely wrong, but I have used that formula for a good four years now.  For instance, we might have 24 people at a volleyball game and put down 50 after adding both teams, the staff and even someone who stepped in for a second.  I will agree I've probably been way off too on attendance numbers.  The TU/Millsaps game last year was probably around 2,200 and I think I had 4,500 or something like that.    

Major_Fan: In Division I there is an attendance minimum standard that must be met, right? There's none in Division III. You can count attendance however you want, except for NCAA postseason games, which must be only tickets actually sold.

Division III and Division I operate under many different rules. I hope you're not applying other D-I rules at Millsaps.

[Ralph Turner]

...  The TU/Millsaps game last year was probably around 2,200 and I think I had 4,500 or something like that.    

And 30 years from now, the number of people who saw the "Miralce in Mississippi" will number into the "tens of thousands"!   

Why shucks!  I remember that game myself!         

What is the "Miracle in Mississippi"?  Is that something that happened last year, was the Mississippi River parted at Vicksburg?  Hopefully I can find it on the Internet! I can't even remember what I ate for lunch on Saturday 

I just googled "Miracle" "Mississippi" and got 6,270,000 citations.  (That is close to the number of times that the Trinity loyalists voted on the ESPYS).

Maybe you can find it amongst those millions.   

And I didn't suffer from keyboard dyslexia this time.  (I hit the right hand faster than the left hand on the keyboard!     )

[historymajor]

Ralph, I for one WAS there!  As I WAS at the Ice Bowl in GB in 1967.  And I WAS at Milw Cty Stadium the last time my Brewers were in the World Series!  Did you get my little 'token' of appreciation for guesting at the TU/McM game?